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...SILVER CYLINDRICAL EDIFICE OF Shibuya 109 (Ichi-maru-kyu in Japanese) shines like a beacon to Japan's teen fashionistas, who journey here every day like the faithful to a holy site. An eight-story, freewheeling, techno-pumping madhouse of 110 boutiques selling clothing, shoes and accessories, Maru Kyu, as it's popularly known, is the one-stop fashion mecca for Tokyo's high-school-girl hipsters, who not only pump billions into Japan's economy each year but also drive trends in hemlines, hair color and heel height from Singapore to Shanghai and beyond. In less than a decade...
...says his role is to ensure that the right designers find the right consumers at the right time. When it works, fashion phenomena are born, as in 1996, when the stylist for pop-music sensation Namie Amuro picked up some miniskirts, white platform boots and long coats in Maru Kyu's boutiques. Before long, Amuro's devotees were flocking to 109 to snap up the signature totems of what became known as the Amuler Boom...
...Winning office is expensive?political analysts estimate that Roh's campaign cost at least $125 million, more than that of U.S. President George W. Bush?but tough campaign-financing laws limit the money that can be raised legally from deep-pocket contributors to $208,000 each. Says Roh Kwan Kyu, budget and accounting committee chairman for the Millennium Democratic Party (under whose banner Roh ran for the presidency): "It would be extremely difficult to get elected within the legal amount of money that is allowed...
...have the same moral problem with sharing digital music that I have with public libraries--i.e., none," she says. The future of digital-music sales may rest in the hands of those who, to borrow from the Talking Heads, have developed a healthy fear of music--free music. Says Kyu-Heong Kim, a junior majoring in biology at the University of Texas in Austin: "Who wants to be put in jail or pay some huge fine because you downloaded Justin Timberlake's newest song? It's just too big of a risk." --With reporting by Stefanie Friedhoff/Ann Arbor, Avery Holton/Austin...
...might have actually channeled $21 million into the fund. Former President Kim isn't currently under investigation for the slush fund or the summit pay-offs to North Korea; with Chung's death, he might never be. At a wake for Chung, a teary Hyundai Asan president Kim Yoon Kyu was heard in a TV news broadcast to say: "The chairman fell on his sword to end this whole thing...